To Bacon Or Not To Bacon

Bacon. The look, the smell, the crunch, even the greasy fingers after....there is nothing I do not love about bacon. Except soggy limp bacon, that is unacceptable. Bacon need to be cooked and cooked until its 1/10 its original size and practically crumbles in your hand :)


We are completely and thoroughly iced in. So in anticipation, Steve went to the store last night and got some more milk and eggs and bacon so we could have a yummy breakfast, at my request by the way. I decided to make my family bacon and pancakes, we never have the time to have a hot homemade meal like that for breakfast as a family so I was excited to do this. The kids were at the table and Steve was doing dishes while I started to fry up the bacon. I did my homework last night and knew that I could have a couple slices of bacon for around 4pts, awesome!

So I'm frying up the bacon and the amount of grease in the pan grew and grew and grew, I mean seriously by the end the bacon was swimming. I've never fried bacon. I never paid attention when my parents made bacon. We always make turkey bacon or get the microwave kind so I had no idea and let me tell you I WAS DISGUSTED! Ick! I ate one piece out of the first batch and was looking forward to my 2nd and 2rd piece I'd allotted for myself. That didn't happen. I was so grossed out seeing the bacon prepared, and feeling all greasy from the splatter from the pan, that I passed my beloved burnt bacon onto my husband to be happily consumed.

I grabbed a strawberry WW yogurt and dumped it in a bowl, measured out my 1/3c of lowfat granola and added that to the yogurt. Add a big glass of ice water and I've got a much healthier, and to be honest much more satisfying, breakfast. Yeah I would have like a pancake or two but I didn't NEED them. I'm going to have an orange or banana in a bit and some cheese and crackers for a snack and leftover stuffed shells for lunch. I'm very very much looking forward to the parmesan chicken fingers for dinner that have become a big family favorite.

So you see, I CAN have bacon and pancakes, I DO have enough points to enjoy it without guilt but I CHOSE to go another route. I will be having bacon again, but someone else can cook it!